I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a crazy orgy that morning, but at a certain point they kick everybody out, and say: "Come, go home. Yeah, I had a great time too." And then you're alone again, and then you're freshly inspired and energized.

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.